NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

In the first quarter, Lin Tian scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. He alone activated the Pacers' entire offense and easily broke through the Warriors' defense. Under his leadership, the Pacers' starting five all scored points and their efficiency was not low.

In the second quarter of the game, Lin Tian, ​​who had played the entire first quarter, sat on the sidelines to rest and watched Ginobili and Parker fight on the court with Josh Howard, Matt Bonner and Artest.

There is no way. After Webber was basically out for the whole season due to injury, the Pacers actually have no second-in-command, and this has become Lin Tian's single-core team.

But no matter how single-core he is, he has to put out a few people to help Lin Tian share the pressure. Artest, the most famous guy, is Carlisle's choice. He hopes that Artest can use his defense to drive his teammates and the second lineup, so that the Pacers will not suffer too much when playing with the second lineup.

In the previous few games, as long as Lin Tianyi went down to rest, the Pacers would play in chaos like a headless fly. The tactics could not be implemented, the players did not cooperate well, and the obvious stagnation on the offensive end always made them fall into a scoring drought.

The Pacers' opponents are often able to rely on this period of time to overtake or expand the score.

At least in the first few games of the season, Artest did not perform well as the second-in-command.

This guy gets carried away easily when playing basketball and likes to rush around. It's absolutely no problem to let him be a striker and a vanguard, but it's a bit difficult to let him command his teammates and lead by example.

We still need to explore internally and tap the potential of our players.

Just when Carlisle was having a headache, Lin Tian, ​​who was originally sitting on the bench, suddenly stood up and shouted to the court: "Tony, what are you doing! Shout out! Shout louder!"

"When you tell Ron to run, just tell him loudly! When you need help on defense, just tell him! When you encounter a pick-and-roll, you have to tell him whether to switch defense or not!"

"You are a point guard, but you don't speak on the court. What kind of point guard are you?"

The reason why Lin Tian stood up to teach Parker a lesson was that in the previous round, Parker was caught in the Warriors' pick-and-roll, but he did not communicate with his teammates, resulting in the Warriors scoring 2 points.

And when attacking, this guy originally wanted to use a tactic, but after seeing Artest getting into position, he immediately changed his mind. He no longer asked his teammates to run, but gave the ball directly to Artest.

Lin Tian just discovered Parker's problem in these few games.

He has a bit of a shy personality, is a bit thin-skinned, and is a bit introverted and doesn't like to talk.

In the past few years, with Lin Tian and Jordan in the team, his problem was not a problem at all!

This also led to the fact that neither Lin Tian nor Carlisle had noticed Parker's problem before.

But the situation is different this year. The team needs Parker to take on the responsibility of organizing the team when Lin Tian is not there, and he also needs him to play double point guard with Lin Tian from time to time. However, in his current condition, he is obviously unable to handle this responsibility.

Lin Tian and Carlisle had the same idea on this point.

We must push Parker! Let him grow up quickly!
At the same time, it’s not just Parker that Lin Tian wants to oppress and force!

And Ginobili is on the court with him right now!
Although this guy has been in the team for a short time, he is quite old. Having played in Europe for several years, he should have been a mature player.

But what about the performance in the previous games?

Like Parker, he can't let go.

Lin Tian believed that Ginobili must have seen some opportunities, but this guy just didn't pass the ball. Instead, he waited for a more certain opportunity to pass the ball. The same was true when shooting. Unless the shot was in an absolutely good open position, this guy would not shoot much.

This situation is very obvious: afraid of making mistakes, afraid of being scolded.

Lin Tian was puzzled. Logically speaking, one of them was flirting while the other was flirting, so this kind of situation shouldn't have happened?
God knows what's wrong with these two people. They are actually acting like virgins in front of Lin Tian?

I didn’t notice these two people like this in the past two years!
However, Lin Tian was not curious at all as to why the two of them were so restrained.

Mr. Lin doesn't care about the reasons, he only cares about the results.

Within a month, I will give them both remedial lessons, special training, and a good fuck, so that they know how to play on the basketball court and how to maintain confidence and aggressiveness!
Being too casual is certainly not a good thing, but being too conservative and fearful is definitely a failure!

Almost four minutes into the second quarter, Lin Tian shouted at Ginobili or Parker on the court several times, asking them to be bolder and smarter.

Of course, there were also a few times when he shouted at Artest, and Lin Tian had to ask him to calm down and be more conservative.

Otherwise, if Lin Tian shouted at those two people, he wouldn't know whether they heard it or not, but Artest would definitely take it to heart!
For example, once Lin Tian asked Ginobili to shoot boldly, but before he finished speaking, Artest forced a three-pointer and missed it despite the defense.

For example, Lin Tian asked Parker to shout out tactics louder, but when it came to Artest, he turned to yelling, "Get out of the way! Everyone, get out of the way! I'm going to sit on this bastard to death!"

For example, Lin Tian told Parker and Ginobili to pass the ball boldly and confidently when they saw an opportunity, and not to be afraid of mistakes.

Wow, Artest was immediately possessed by Ben. After grabbing the backcourt rebound, he dribbled the ball forward. He made a one-man run to the basket and was about to fall when he was double-teamed. However, he passed the ball from behind and the ball went directly into Richardson's arms.

Richardson received a wonderful pass, accelerated madly all the way to the frontcourt and performed an incredible two-handed folding turn dunk!

After the dunk, Richardson screamed with excitement and beat his chest with his hands, fully displaying his talent and passion.

Lin Tian and Carlisle were so angry about Artest's performance that they wanted to punch out his other eye. If you had studied so hard and listened to your teachers in school, would you have been regarded as a "beast" and a monster? You would have gotten a proper college diploma a long time ago.

31: 36!

After about 4 minutes of the second quarter, the Warriors successfully seized the opportunity when the Pacers' playing style was unclear and somewhat chaotic, launched waves of counterattacks, and successfully narrowed the gap to 5 points.

The suspense is back!

At the same time, it also fully proves that this year's Pacers team is really a bit lacking. Before, how could they be forced into this state by a mid-level team just because of the lack of two people?

Carlisle didn't dare let Lin Tian continue to rest. If he did, the score would be reversed by the Warriors. He took advantage of a dead ball opportunity and quickly replaced Lin Tian and Christie on the court.

The effect of the substitution is naturally immediate.

The Warriors' defense was basically a mess, and with Lin Tian directing the overall situation, providing one-stop services from personal offense to passing and organizing, in less than two minutes, Lin Tian once again led the team to expand the score difference to more than 10 points!
Throughout the second quarter, the Pacers were in firm control of the game.

It seemed that after Lin Tian came back, the entire Pacers team learned how to play and knew what they should do.

Artest stopped playing randomly, Ginobili's cuts were clever and cunning, Parker's breakthroughs were resolute and agile, and Christie and Haslem were also able to hit open shots.

The Pacers launched an all-out attack and successfully expanded their lead to 20 points at the end of the second quarter.

45: 65!

The Pacers went into halftime with a 20-point lead.

As soon as he entered the locker room, Lin Tian sat down directly between Ginobili and Parker, and then asked Christie, who was originally sitting there, to find a place to play for a while.

"You two, follow me." Lin Tian was just about to find a place to teach these two people, but before he stood up, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes and the lights dimmed.

"Ron, what are you doing?" Lin Tian raised his head and looked at Artest standing in front of the three people in confusion.

"Boss, I want to plead for them." Artest said sincerely, "It's true that they played averagely in the first half, but there's no need to beat them up. Really, it's normal to play badly and have ups and downs."

"They are all our guys. Let's talk it out. If that doesn't work, I'll do it! This way they will only hate me, and it won't affect the unity of the team."

"You're really my good son." Lin Tian gave a thumbs up and said, "Don't you know who played the worst in the first half?"

"If you hadn't been showing off your skills, would we have only been ahead by 20 points?"

"But I'll settle your question with you later. I have to teach these two boys what basketball is first."

After Lin Tian finished speaking, he pushed Artest away, looked back at Parker and Ginobili, and walked into the shower room first.

The two of them looked at each other, then stood up tremblingly and followed Lin Tian towards the shower room.

"If Lin wants to beat you, don't resist or cry out in pain. Admit your mistake quickly and he won't be too harsh." Artest shouted behind the two of them, expressing his support for his brother.

"Ron, where did you learn this? Who told you that if your teammates don't play well, Lin will beat them up?" Christie watched Lin Tian and the others disappear, and looked at Artest curiously.

He was very curious about how Artest's logic came about.

"It's like this in our family. Disobedient kids are dragged into a small dark room and beaten. After they come out, they are better behaved than anyone else. I was often beaten like this when I was a child." Artest showed a nostalgic emotion, as if that was the beautiful youth he had lost.

"Then your head must have been hit hard by your father with a stick." Christie rolled his eyes and was too lazy to talk to Artest anymore. Then he realized that Artest didn't really regard Lin Tian as his biological father...

Can't it be such an exaggeration?
"What's so strange about that?" said Josh Howard, who is also a rookie. "When I was a kid, my family was like this too. My dad even hit me on the head with the butt of a gun. If he hadn't hit me so hard, I think I would be a handsome guy!"

"It's hopeless." Christie scratched his head. He felt that the team's current problems were no longer technical or tactical. The problem was that the souls of these newcomers needed cleansing.

This is a bunch of people who have no idea what is going on.

Three minutes later, Lin Tian walked out of the shower room alone.

He also closed the door, and everyone could only vaguely hear some roaring coming from inside.

Artest immediately said, "Boss, at least let the team doctor in."

"You're too harsh. There's no need for that, boss." Howard also came over with a stinky face.

"Get out." Lin Tian rolled his eyes. The team doctor goes in?
What can the team doctor do when he goes in? At most, he can give them two Golden Throat Lozenges.

"Lin, what are they doing?" Carlisle asked curiously.

Although he believed that Lin Tian would not do anything stupid, and would not really attack those two people just because they did not fight well, he was still very curious.

"Nothing, just let them open their voices." Lin Tian pointed at the door of the shower room and said, "You can go and listen, but don't disturb them."

When he heard that he could go check out what was going on, Artest was the first to run over, leaning his head in to listen stealthily.

Less than a minute later, he came over with a puzzled look on his face and said, "I heard Tony yelling something like 'switch, switch, switch, switch defense!' And something like 'don't switch, don't switch, don't switch!' And something like 'run, run, run, play according to the tactics!' He kept repeating these three sentences over and over again."

"I'll let him practice these three sentences, and we'll talk about other things later." Lin Tian said that you heard it right, they are just practicing this.

"What about Manu? What is he doing?" Christie asked impatiently.

"He's crazy." Artest said, "He's yelling something like 'I'm the best! I'm number one! I just made a mistake! Why can't I shoot when I'm open in a one-on-one situation? If I don't make a mistake, this shot will be one of the top ten."

"Lin, you are doing this..." Carlisle frowned. He always felt that Lin Tian's way of doing things was not okay.

"This is the best way, believe me." Lin Tian patted Carlisle's shoulder and said, "These two guys don't lack ability, they lack opportunity and confidence. Gilbert is much better in this regard."

"And the two of them, who have been around either me, Michael or Vince for the past few years, are really prone to lack of self-confidence and feel that they are far behind us."

"In half a month, within half a month, I will turn these two guys into foul-mouthed, vicious, and confident villains."

Carlisle wanted to say something, but thinking that Lin Tian was a psychology graduate and was most likely a professional at this, he could only nod and say that he would listen to him.

Then, Carlisle began to plan the strategy for the second half of the game.

Simply put, just play at the pace of the first half.

Increase defensive aggressiveness, continue to pressure their main scoring points, and then pass the ball to Lin Tian on the offensive end.

In the end, Lin Tian took care of it.

Soon, the 15-minute halftime break was over, and a group of people stood up and left the locker room with excitement, ready to win their first victory of the season.

20 seconds later, Lin Tian rubbed his head and walked back, opening the door of the shower room: "Well, the second half of the game has started, let's go."

What a shame, I forgot about these two brothers.

In the second half of the game, neither side changed their starting lineups, and the Pacers did not change their playing style. They started with a pick-and-roll between Lin Tian and Haslem, and then Lin Tian passed the ball to Christie who was cutting to the basket without even looking at him, assisting him to get the first point in the second half.

Then the Warriors changed their style of play, adding pick-and-rolls, trying to get their top scorer to face the Pacers' less defensive players. But the execution of the tactics was not very smooth.

Arenas held the ball and set a screen, and the person defending him became Christie.

He changed his screener and Artest became the one defending him again.

Helpless Arenas called for a screen again. This time the Pacers directly double-teamed him. Artest and Lin Tian forced him to his feet in the high position. Then Artest stole the ball and passed it to Lin Tian. Lin Tian ran all the way with the ball and added another 2 points with a one-handed slam dunk!
Then the Warriors repeated their old tricks, this time they wanted to attack through cooperation after the pick-and-roll. Arenas also intentionally increased his passing speed to directly break the Pacers' defensive rotation.

But the problem is that among the Warriors' starting five, Arenas' passing level is considered to be in the middle of the league. He relies more on offense to drive the pass, but the others...

Well, except for Dunleavy Jr. who can barely pass the ball a few times, the rest are pure finishers, and their passing ability is really hard to describe.

For example, after Arenas and Dampier cooperated in a pick-and-roll, the Pacers double-teamed Arenas, and he immediately passed the ball to Dampier who was running down to the free throw line.

Then?

There was nothing else. Dampier held the ball and faced Haslem who came to help defend with a ferocious look on his face. He actually stopped the ball directly, then raised the ball high in a state of confusion, not knowing what to do with it.

Support, organize the attack? He doesn't have that ability, you know!
Dampier's hesitation resulted in the direct waste of about 3-4 seconds. Under the crazy pursuit and attack of the Pacers' outside players, by the time Richardson got the basketball, there were only 3 seconds left for the offense.

He also had to deal with Artest's entanglement. All he could do was to dribble the ball a few times and then forcefully pull up and throw a 3-pointer.

"Boom!"

Needless to say, the result of this kind of ball was that it went straight into the air with a dull thud.

Haslem jumped up again and grabbed the rebound, then swung his elbows to drive away the Warriors players around him, and then passed the ball to Lin Tian.

Lin Tian's speed of advancement this time was very fast. He fought his way to the frontcourt against Arenas' defense, and then suddenly made a huge change of direction dribbling and a sudden stop and step back. This sudden stop made Arenas retreat 3-4 steps into the distance, and the distance between him and Lin Tian was widened to 5 meters away in the blink of an eye.

Lin Tian even had time to glance at Arenas before he collected the ball, jumped and shot.

"Shh!"

After a crisp sound, Lin Tian scored his 30th point of the night!
At the same time, the Pacers' lead exceeded 30 points for the first time!
50: 81!

And at this moment, there are still more than 7 minutes left in the third quarter.

The game has basically entered garbage time.

Then after the game had played for more than 2 minutes, Carlisle no longer held back and waved his hand, replacing the main players with five players each.

Parker, Ginobili, Howard, Bonner and Tabak went on the court side by side, ready to play the remaining time.

"Remember what I taught you." When Lin Tian crossed paths with Parker and Ginobili, he reminded them, "Just kidding, we practiced for 15 minutes during the halftime break, it can't be in vain, right? Then where would I, Mr. Lin, save my reputation?"

The answer, of course, is: all in vain.

In the second half, these two players still didn't dare to shout out the tactics, and they still didn't dare to explain loudly when defending.

Ginobili's enchanting and crazy ideas and imaginative passes still did not show much, and compared to the first half, the two of them played even more restrained.

"No." Although the score difference was steadily increasing, Lin Tian still frowned, very dissatisfied. What happened to these two? They even regressed in the new season? I was counting on them to carry the banner of bench offense to help the team improve.

At first glance, it’s far from the truth!

In the past few years, both Lin Tian and Carlisle did not pay enough attention to these two and did not pay enough attention to them. They did not put too much effort into them, which resulted in their progress being slower than expected.

However, now we realize that it’s not too late, we are still young!
In this game, the Pacers defeated the Warriors with a score of 91:112, easily winning their first victory of the season, which was considered a preliminary step out of the shadow of the losing streak at the beginning of the season.

But for Parker and Ginobili, their "nightmare" has just begun.

That night after the match against the Warriors, Lin Tian told the two of them to come an hour earlier the next day as he wanted to give them extra training.

The next morning, Lin Tian arrived at the training hall early and was satisfied to find that the two had already changed their clothes and had been practicing for a while, so they were considered to be warmed up.

"Let's go." Lin Tian was simple and direct, and took the two somewhat frightened guys to the strength room.

"Let's do a strength training session first, for half an hour."

"Just practice this." Ginobili was actually a little disappointed. Obviously, this guy had imagined a lot, thinking that Lin Tian would give him some special and creative training.

"There are requirements." Lin Tian looked at the two people and said, "Roar! When you exert force, the Dantian drives the air in the chest. When you push the dumbbells with all your strength, you must also roar with all your strength. The louder the better. Do you understand?"

"that's it?"

"That's it. Shout it out to me, both of you. Practice your voices."

After Lin Tian finished speaking, he came to a machine and sat down: "Let's get started, I want you two to scream more miserably than a pig being slaughtered."

"what!"

"Oh oh oh!"

"Yeah!"

"Hey!"

.........

In the next half hour, a series of pig-slaughtering screams were indeed heard in the strength room. At the beginning, Parker and Ginobili were a little restrained and their voices were not loud enough.

But then the two of them quickly got into the mood, just like in a competition, their voices became louder and louder, one after another, fiercely and loudly.

Several Pacers players who were passing by the weight room and wanted to practice a little bit earlier all walked past the door, but after hearing the screams inside, they turned around and left without thinking.

A place of right and wrong, a place of right and wrong!
Don't stay long!

30 minutes later, Lin Tian walked out of the strength room with two exhausted guys, and took out two pieces of candy and said, "Eat this, it will nourish your throat."

Watching the two swallow the pills, Lin Tian glanced at Ronaldo, who was smiling silly on the packaging box in his hand, and couldn't help but remind him: "By the way, if we go to China again in the future, someone says that some auntie or something is your fan and wants to take a photo with you."

"They said they would give you a lot of money if you just put on your clothes and show off two basketball moves. Don't go. There is no such thing as a free lunch, right?"

"I know, I know." Although they didn't know why Lin Tian suddenly said such a strange thing, the two of them nodded to show that they understood.

Then the three of them walked to the training hall. At this time, the Pacers players were basically all there. After all, the team's record was not good, and everyone was taking the initiative to practice more.

"Just right, everyone is here, Ron, come and help." Lin Tian waved his hand and called Artest, who was chattering something to Christie and others.

"What's wrong, boss?"

"It doesn't matter who wins or loses in the one-on-one duel between you and Manu. I want you to use bigger moves and hit him as hard as you can without hurting him. Also, start trash-talking him. Talk whatever nasty things you want to hear. Talk as hard as you can."

"No problem! Leave it to me!" When Artest heard this, he knew that this was a professional match and it was his strong point. He was very excited: "Let's go, Baldy, let's have a one-on-one fight."

"I have thick hair!" Ginobili protested immediately.

"Do you think I can't see you secretly using hair growth shampoo? Or are you using it for your little head instead of your head?"

Watching the two men walking away, Lin Tian also hugged Parker and said, "Let's go, let's duel. The rules are the same as those two. If you can't stand it, you can beat me up. I promise not to fight back."

"Not at all, Lin. I won't hit you." Parker stared at him with his big watery eyes, looking innocent and scared.

"I need you to beat me up." Lin Tian didn't care about that and continued, "Today's training is over, and we have to practice more. If you dare to beat me up, you can go home and sleep when you beat me up. If you don't dare to do it, then it depends on my mood. I will let you go home only when I have had enough fun."

Over the next half hour, the Pacers players saw two very ferocious one-on-ones.

How do you feel about these two one-on-one matches?

Putting aside the level and the outcome, it was truly brutal!

Neither Artest nor Lin Tian were playing basketball, they were just bullying others. Their elbows were high and fierce, and the trash talk never stopped for a second. If people didn't know that there was no hatred between them, they would really think that these people had some irreconcilable feud.

Unfortunately, the half-hour one-on-one duel, including the extra practice time after the game, did not result in any obvious resistance or outburst from Ginobili and Parker.

These two are still enduring.

When the extra practice ended and several people were about to leave, Lin Tiancai took out two VCDs and handed them to Parker and Ginobili, saying, "Gifts, go back and watch them and get a feel for them."

"Thank you." The two guys, who were already exhausted, took the VCD and turned to leave.

"Boss?" Artest looked at Lin Tian expectantly, his expression was the same as that of a dog waiting for a snack reward.

This was really a punch that turned him from a lone wolf into a husky.

Lin Tian touched his pocket, looked here and there, feeling a little embarrassed.

Really not prepared.

After thinking for a long time, Lin Tian took out a pen from his backpack and wrote something praiseworthy on Artest's shirt.

"To: To the best guy, the best brother, the lifelong friend, Ron Artest, who practiced with me until late at night for the first time."

After signing, Lin Tian was somewhat nervous.

After all, he is thick-skinned, but not really that thick.

This is the first time I give a gift to my teammates like this.

In addition to fans, he has also given gifts to Jordan's son, DeAndre Jordan, and Curry's son, Curry Jr.

"I love Lin so much! I framed it when I got home! Oh God! Lin thinks I am his best friend! Oh God! This is God's gift to me, I will definitely be more pious!"

Artest cheered exaggeratedly, then came up and hugged Lin Tian, ​​then swayed left and right and left happily.

The way he acted made Lin Tian feel that this guy did it on purpose.

This is my point!

This is irony, right? It has to be, right?
Otherwise, who could be so happy after receiving such a perfunctory autograph from his teammates?

This guy is trying to make me feel guilty...

Lin Tian could never have imagined that the first guy in his life who made him feel guilty and started to fantasize about him was Artest.

There's really a fine line between genius and lunatic, right?
Then during training the next day, Lin Tian discovered: this guy was not joking or being sarcastic, he was serious.

Because the bastard actually framed the shirt and hung it directly in his closet.

"This is the most glorious thing that has happened to me this season!" Artest raised his neck, his face full of excitement, as if he had received the highest medal or some medal of honor.

Artest's move made other people in the locker room look at Lin Tian with somewhat abnormal eyes.

In other words, all those old bastards like Miller, Jordan, and Barkley have gone, otherwise, Lin Tian would have been given a new nickname in a minute: Animal Tamer. (End of this chapter)